Midlife Exercise Increased Brain Function Later in Life

A very interesting new study from the University of Pittsburgh was published today on the online journal Neurology. The study followed 299 men and women with a average age of 78 for nine years and found that regular exercise cut the risk of typical age related memory loss by half. The researches used walking as a metric since it was the most common exercise the participates listed, but the lead author Dr. Kirk Erickson stressed that all forms of exercise would achieve the same positive results, "If regular exercise in midlife could improve brain health and improve thinking and memory in later life, it would be one more reason to make regular exercise in people of all ages a public health imperative."


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